Chapter 383 Latin and Sabine Responses

The Apennine Mountains are like a natural moat, dividing the Apennine Peninsula in half.

After entering the Campania region with a thousand-man team and forty-hundred-man team, Roy ordered the forty-hundred-man team to occupy all the Latin tribal villages in the Campania region, while Roy himself led the thousand-man team to the border between the Campania region and the Lazio region.

Because the Apennine Mountains protect the east side of the Campania region, as long as Roy leads the thousand-man team to block the Latin tribes in the Lazio region, he can absorb and digest the Campania region and turn it into the territory of the Athenian Empire.

As Roy's hundred-man team attacked the Latin tribal villages one by one, the Latin leaders who ruled these tribal villages were either killed or fled to the Lazio region to seek help from the Latin leader council, that is, the Latin Senate.

Three days later.

Roy brought the thousand-man team to the border between the Campania region and the Lazio region.

Roy's forty-hundred-man team also completed the occupation of all the Latin tribal villages in the Campania region.

It is natural that such a result would occur.

The Latin tribal villages usually have a population of only about 1,000. Excluding the elderly, children and women, the Latin tribal villages can only gather 200 men at most.

But even if 200 men with wooden spears or stone spears have a numerical advantage, they cannot defeat a hundred-man team consisting of 70 men with sharp iron spears and 30 men with bronze spears.

Moreover, there are many Sicurs who have been conquered and assimilated by them in the Latin tribal villages.

These Sicurs do the hardest, most tiring and dirtiest work in the Latin tribal villages. Seeing the Athenian soldiers and Sicur soldiers attacking the Latin tribal villages, these Sicurs are simply unlikely to help the Latins fight against the invaders, and may even turn against the Latins who usually oppress them.

While the Campania region was successfully conquered, the Basilicata region was also successfully conquered.

Although the Sabine tribal villages that worship the god of war Quirinus resisted tenaciously, their tenacious will could not allow them to defeat the dimensionality reduction attack of advanced weapons.

The Athenian soldiers followed Roy's orders and either killed the leaders of the Sabine tribal villages or drove away the leaders of the Sabine tribal villages.

Without the leaders leading the way, the ordinary Sabine villagers saw that the Athenian soldiers would not harm them or rob their property, so they were naturally reluctant to leave their homes.

The border between Campania and Lazio.

After Roy stationed here, he asked his Athenian soldiers to go to the Latin tribal villages in groups of 15 and supervise the 40 centuries that occupied the Latin tribal villages.

Roy himself, with the remaining 400 soldiers, guarded the border.

Lazio.

Roman Plain.

This land was not only abnormally humid, but also had various diseases rampant. After centuries of reclamation and development, it has become a grain-producing area.

Because of the rich food, the largest Latin tribe, the Tullenus tribe, lived in the Roman Plain.

The leader of the Tullenus tribe was named Tullenus.

The Tullenus tribe was originally just an ordinary Latin tribe in the Roman Plain.

Because the current leader Tullenus developed his tribe into a large tribe with a population of tens of thousands, Tullenus's tribe was called the Tullenus tribe.

Although he ruled the largest tribe among the Latins and became a consul in the Latin Senate, Tullenus was not satisfied with the status of consul.

After frequent contact with the Etruscans in the north, Tullenus learned that the Etruscans not only did not have a Senate system, but also had a single king leading all the Etruscans.

This gave Tullenus the ambition to become the king of Latins.

Originally, Tullenus always believed that his ambition could not be realized in his lifetime.

However, the Athenians invaded the Campania region, which gave Tullenus an opportunity to realize his ambition.

Tullenus tribe.

The stone house hall of leader Tullenus.

More than 20 Latin tribal village leaders who escaped from the Campania region cried to Tullenus about their experiences.

"Great Tullenus, only you can save us now."

"Those Sicurs got help from powerful foreigners and took away all our territory."

"Please convene the Council of Leaders as the consul and unite all the Latin tribes to deal with the Sicurs and powerful foreigners."

Listening to the leaders' complaints, Tullenus nodded continuously.

"Dear brothers! I will defend the interests of all our Latins, but I also need your support. Although all the Latins in Lazio can unite to form an army of tens of thousands of people, if this army is commanded by dozens of leaders, we will be a mess. Even if the number of enemies is smaller than ours, it is difficult for us to defeat the enemy with powerful weapons. So I hope you can support me in the Council of Leaders and let me become a dictator with power equal to that of the king."

Hearing Tullenus' request, the leaders agreed.

"Great Turenus, your request is very reasonable."

"We are willing to support you in the Council of Leaders, so that you can have the absolute power to command all Latins like the King of Latins."

"As long as you lead us to defeat the enemy, I am willing to support you to become a lifelong dictator."

Seeing that the leaders who had lost their territories and people all supported him, Tullenus immediately summoned all the Latin tribal village leaders in the Lazio region.

The next day.

All the Latin tribal village leaders gathered in the stone house hall of Tullenus for a formal leaders' meeting - also known as the Senate.

After the leaders of the Campania region cried, the leaders of the Lazio region were all indignant and expressed their willingness to defeat the enemy under the leadership of Tullenus and take back the Campania region belonging to the Latins.

The same thing was happening in Puglia.

A dozen leaders of the Sabine tribal villages in the Basilicata region fled to Puglia and sought help from Metius, the most powerful Sabine tribal leader.

Most of the Puglia region is plains, so the population in Puglia is very large.

The Sabines have a population of 200,000 in Puglia and Abruzzo.

In other words, Metius could summon an army of 20,000 people to help the Sabine leaders in the Basilicata region take back their territories and people.

Bari is located in the center of the Apulian Plain.

A huge tribe consisting of 20,000 people, which can be called a city-state, lives in Bari.

The leader of this huge tribe is Metius, the most powerful leader of the Sabines.

At this time, in the hall of Metius's stone house, Metius was listening to the cries of the leaders of the Basilicata region.

When the leaders calmed down, Metius said calmly.

"Dear brothers, I heard about the Kingdom of Athens from Phoenician merchants, so I know they are very powerful. The Basilicata region was originally snatched from the Siculians by us. If the Athenians are willing to live in peace with us, I plan to give up the Basilicata region."